This course offers a comprehensive and critical approach to improving safety and awareness for law enforcement officers and telecommunicators. By focusing on human behavioral precursors and the signs that might indicate imminent danger, the course aims to enhance participants' ability to recognize and respond to potential threats before they escalate.

-Behavioral Precursors

-Responder Dangers Signs

-The 10 Deadly Sins of Law Enforcement

-Historical and Current Data

-Critical Incident Reviews

-Mindset and Complacency

Objectives/Reason to Take the Course:

1. Recognize Behavioral Precursors to Violence:
   Learn how to identify subtle human behaviors and cues that may indicate escalating risk or impending violence.

2. Identify and Respond to Responder Danger Signs:
   Develop an understanding of environmental and situational warning signs that pose a threat to law enforcement and telecommunicators.

3. Analyze the “10 Deadly Sins of Law Enforcement”:
   Examine common operational and mindset-related errors that increase vulnerability in the field, and explore strategies to avoid them.

4. Utilize Historical and Current Data to Inform Practice:
   Review trends and case studies from past incidents to identify patterns and improve decision-making.

5. Conduct Critical Incident Reviews for Lessons Learned:
   Study real-life incidents to understand what went wrong and how better situational awareness and behavior recognition could have changed the outcome.

6. Combat Complacency and Strengthen Professional Mindset:
   Cultivate a proactive, vigilant mindset to prevent lapses in attention and judgment that can lead to tragedy.

Instructor Matthew Johnson